Sources of further information and advice

Development of plant transformation systems and their potential application are topics comprehensively addressed in excellent reviews [23, 81, 105–6] to which the reader is referred for background information. For further details about molecular aspects on T-DNA transfer, readers are referred to several excellent reviews. [107–8] For those interested in Agrobacterium-based vectors available for DNA transfer to plant cells, numerous useful methodologies have been reported. [109–10]